Huck Finn is definitely a bildungsroman. Huck’s journey has to do with being civilized and the relationship between religion and morality. Huck notes several times that he is going to hell. He does not understand Miss Watson’s religious ways or reasons why people attend church, and he would rather just figure things out on his own. Huck’s triumph is that he does, in fact, find a way to exhibit the most morality in the novel. His morality does not come from religion, but rather from his own conscience. There are two important moments when I see Huck as reaching maturity. First, when he decides that he will be loyal to Jim instead of writing Miss Watson to turn him in, and second, when he comes to the simple realization that humans can be very cruel to one another. We see humans being cruel to one another throughout the novel, starting with pap being cruel to Huck. We also see cruelty in the dueling families, with the duke and the king to the sisters and with slavery in general. Huck matures because he recognizes cruelty and chooses to reject it, despite what the current times teach him.